Radiation reaction effects on radiation pressure acceleration
By M. Tamburini, F. Pegoraro, A. Piazza, C. Keitel, Andrea Macchi. 2010
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Radiation reaction (RR) effects on the acceleration of a thin plasma foil by a superintense laser pulse in the radiation pressure-dominated regime are investigated theoretically. A simple suitable approximation of the Landau–Lifshitz equation for the RR force and a novel leap-frog pusher for its inclusion in particle-in-cell simulations are provided. Simulations for both linear and circular polarization of the laser pulse are performed and compared. It is found that at intensities exceeding 1023 W cm− 2 the RR force strongly affects the dynamics for a linearly polarized laser pulse, reducing the maximum ion energy but also the width of the spectrum. In contrast, no significant effect is found for circularly polarized laser pulses whenever the laser pulse does not break through the foil.
Subfields: Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Modelling high-energy pulsar light curves from first principles (2015, methodology): “The particle motion is solved on a regular Cartesian grid using the modified Boris push by Tamburini et al. (2010) to account for the radiation reaction force (see Sect.”
- Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems (2011, methodology): “One-dimensional (Tamburini et al., 2010) and three-dimensional (Tamburini et al., 2012) PIC simulations have shown that RR effects strongly depend on the polarization of the driving field: while for circular polarization they are negligible even at I0 ∼ 1023 W/cm2, at those intensities they are…”
- SIMULATIONS OF PARTICLE ACCELERATION BEYOND THE CLASSICAL SYNCHROTRON BURNOFF LIMIT IN MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: AN EXPLANATION OF THE CRAB FLARES (2013, methodology): “…with the radiation reaction 2 Several PIC codes used in the laser-plasma interaction community (see e.g., Zhidkov et al. 2002; Sokolov et al. 2009; Tamburini et al. 2010; Capdessus et al. 2012) do include the radiation reaction force, in preparation for future radiation pressuredominated plasma…”